Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast

Original Compositions, Historic Tunes and Popular Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries

About the show

This show is (mostly) a bi-weekly podcast that explores the likely repertoire of eighteenth and early nineteenth century bagpipers, using historic music collections (written for bagpipes or not), performed on Uilleann pipes, Highland pipes and whistles. Every episodes notes include links to the historic sheet music when available. For information about my Albums Oyster Wives Rant, and Pay the Pipemaker go here:

https://www.wetootwaag.com/albums

For information about Jeremy and the instruments played on the show go here:
https://www.wetootwaag.com/about

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Episodes

  • Season 5 Episode 4 Drummond Castle Manuscript

    February 13th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 43 secs
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    David Young’s Drummond Castle Manuscript: Athol Braes, Kiss’d Yestereen, New Bigging, The Malt Man, Kick the World Before You
    William Napier: Braes of Athol
    Neil Gow & Sons: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    James Rook: Oh as I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    William Gunn: Oh How I was Kiss’d Yestreen
    Donald MacDonald: Kick the Rogues Out
    Elizabeth Ross: You Silly Fool

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    Season 5 Episode 3 Play Through of Jackson’s Celebrated Irish Tunes Part 1

    February 5th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  36 mins 54 secs
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    Anderson: Mail Coach
    Jackson: The Figure 3, The Cossey Jig, Pither in Enough
    O’Farrell: Jackson’s Maid at the Fair, Jackson’s Punch Bowl
    Angus MacKay: The Braes of Tullymet
    William Dixon: Hit her between the legs
    Sutherland MS: Whip her and Gird Her

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    Season 5 Episode 2 Dixon and Fitzmaurice Travel to Roslin Castle looking for a Bonny Lass

    January 30th, 2021  |  Season 5  |  45 mins 7 secs
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    William Dixon: Saw ye Never a Bonny lass
    Vickers Manuscript: Kiss’d her under the Coverlet
    Fitzmaurice: Loose the Belt
    Hamilton’s Universal Tune Book: The Berlin Waltz
    Fitzmaurice’s Trip to Roslin Castle
    William McGibbon: Rosline Castle
    James Manson (David Glen): Roslin Picnic
    Donald MacDonald: Roslin Castle, MacPharlane’s lilt
    Angus MacKay: Roslin Castle
    O’Farrell: Pay The Reckoning (Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy, Bobbing for Eels)

  • S5E01 Uilleann Pipes and Strathspeys with Tunes from Jarlath Henderson & Innes Watson and Paul Anderson

    January 22nd, 2021  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 1 sec
    aird, bagpipes, baroque, celtic, donald macdonald, eighteenth century, ghb, great highland bagpipes, highland, history, irish music, music, o'farrell, pastoral pipes, scotland, scottish, scottish music, uilleann pipes, union pipes, walsh

    Tunes:
    James Aird: Irish Hautboy
    Jar and Innes: Top Gallantsail (Comp Innes Watson), John Stephen Of Chance Inn (Comp Angus Fitchet),
    Travers Jig (trad), Gustys Frolics (trad: Mick Dohertys Version)
    O’Farrell: Roys Wife of Aldivalock
    O’Farrell: Rothemurchus’s Rant
    Paul Anderson Playing: The Rothiemurchus Rant (Bremner) , Dogs Bite Chapmen (Traditional he Says) and The Fairy Dance (Nataniel Gow)
    From Sutherland: Haughs of Cromdale and Merry Maid’s Wedding
    O’Farrell: Ewe with the Crooked Horn
    George MacLellan: The Little Cascade
    Neil Gow: Lady Baird’s Strathspey
    Drummond Castle MS: Allastor
    Joseph Dales: Jenny Sutton